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Founded in 2016, Pocoapoco is an international arts and cultural organization based in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Through long-term residencies, educational initiatives, and public programs we bring together artists and cultural practitioners to develop creative work, advance critical dialogue, and support the exchange of ideas across disciplines and geographies.
PROGRAMS
From September to April, Pocoapoco hosts five-week residencies in Oaxaca that bring together a cohort of eight local & international residents from diverse fields to develop and exchange knowledge, practices, and perspectives.
Casa Abierta is an annual live arts program that creates a professional network & opportunities for Latin American performance artists through residencies, workshops and performance production.
Sur o No Sur is a summer residency / non-traditional “school” - an opportunity to share and reimagine learning through guided practices, conversations, and exploratory work with visiting artists acting as facilitators & thought partners.
Each summer, Pocoapoco collaborates with former residents & the Pimpollo Community Center in Colonia Vicente Guerrero to provide a month of creative workshops for 120 children that address ecology, human rights, self-care & social action.
Pocoapoco’s public programs include performances, film screenings, open studios, workshops that take place as part of our programs as well as through collaborations with other institutions, projects and artists.
CURRENT RESIDENTS
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Kerenn Josabed es una artista autodidacta y multidisciplinaria originaria de Oaxaca. Su práctica se desarrolla desde una perspectiva de antropología cyborg, enfocada en explorar la co evolución entre tecnologías post-internet y el ser humano, las dinámicas afectivas, sociales y las construcciones de identidad dentro del entorno digital.
Explora la web y las relaciones de poder que atraviesan el internet como territorio. A través de medios digitales, código, pintura, sonido, escultura e instalación, traduce su experiencia de habitar el internet. Ha participado en exposiciones colectivas en Inglaterra, México y Estados Unidos.
Residency 2026
Gregorio Desgarennes Garzón es un artista y curador, su trabajo explora, a través del dibujo, la fotografía y el textil, los patrones físicos, intelectuales y afectivos que atraviesan las relaciones y los vínculos materiales y humanos con los cuales Gregorio ha tropezado una y otra vez.
Para esta residencia, Goyo presenta un textil en el que ha trabajado por más de dos años, anudando la tela en una suerte de shibori. El movimiento que implica transformar la tela provoca una complejidad que se encuentra a partir de la repetición: aparecen, simultáneamente, el dolor físico y la potencia creativa.
Residency 2026
Kassandra Hernández Muñoz es artista escénica. Se graduó en 2023 como licenciada en danza contemporánea por la Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey.
Trabajó con la compañía Los Unos y Los Otros entre 2023 y 2025, y en 2025 formó parte del programa internacional B12 Mavericks en Berlín. Ha colaborado en proyectos de artistas como Akira Yoshida, Lali Ayguadé, Sandra Hernández, Dolores Bernal, César Brodermann y Jaime Sierra. Además, ha desarrollado trabajo como coreógrafa y directora de escena tanto en festivales y ferias como de manera independiente.
Residency 2026
David Zafra es artista plástico y visual. Nació en Oaxaca de Juárez en 1992 y estudió Artes Plásticas y Visuales en “La Esmeralda”, complementando su formación en la École Supérieure d’Art de Bourges, Francia.
Cofundador de Yope Project Space, un espacio independiente que ha sido fundamental para su práctica y para el impulso de proyectos y exposiciones durante más de ocho años. Su trabajo se ha presentado en espacios como kurimanzutto, Museo del Chopo, MACCO, Beverly’s Gallery, Visa Projects, gáfelo Campeche, Galería Tiro al Blanco, Johndoe Gallery y Taller Sangfer, entre otros.
Ha sido beneficiario de distintos apoyos, como Jóvenes Creadores 2024–2025, así como de programas de movilidad, producción y creación, y apoyos del Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo. Ha realizado residencias en la Casa-Taller José Clemente Orozco y Déficit de Pintura, y fue docente de pintura e historia del arte en la UABJO de 2019 a 2025. Su práctica escultórica parte del trabajo con tierra y materiales industriales para reflexionar sobre la erosión, la ruina y las transformaciones culturales impulsadas por la tecnología.
Residency 2026
Equis Enamorado (they / them / elle) is a transdisciplinary artist, curator, and memory worker originally from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. His creative practice encompasses sound experimentation, archival work, and queer studies, influenced and shaped by Central American life. Equis constructs soundscapes that evoke memories beyond the visual archive, incorporating found audio clips and oral histories into his sound production. They founded and manages two community archival projects, "Cinco Estrellas" and "Rebane Récords," dedicated to preserving Honduran cultural memory and the sound lineages of Honduras, the Bay Islands, and their diasporas, respectively.
Residency 2026
Lauren Vanzandt-Escobar has parallel practices in education, research, and visual art. She has spent over a decade working in literacy education programs outside of and at the margins of formal schooling and is fascinated by questions around power and politics in literacy and art education in institutional settings. She is a printmaker and has a daily drawing practice that probes the relations between language and materiality, sound and image, place and movement, and the way in which drawing can embed itself into the interstices of everyday life. Born in the United States in a Colombian-American family, she currently resides in France.
Residency 2026
My-Van Dam is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal). Her artistic practice focuses on the transmission of intergenerational trauma and its multiple physical and psychological impacts. She also explores body memory and the healing processes that foster personal and collective emancipation from oppressive systems. Her current research is rooted in the exploration of somatic theories and practices to propose a vision of care that is interdependent and collaborative.
Residency 2026
Noemí Domínguez Gaspar is a Mixe-Zapotec feminist anthropologist with degrees from ENAH and a Master’s in Women’s Studies (UAM-X). She is currently a doctoral candidate in Gender Studies at UNAM. Her work addresses human rights, gender-based violence, racism, representation, and feminist practices, and she has collaborated with academic and public institutions. Her recent publications include De divas, sandungas e indias (2022) and La participación de las mujeres a través de la cocina para la producción de agave y mezcal en Albarradas (2020).
Residency 2025
Fernanda Armada is a multidisciplinary photographer and visual artist exploring identity, memory, and image transformation. A PECDA Guanajuato beneficiary (2023–2024), she held her first solo exhibition Miradas Hambrientas in Querétaro in 2024. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Mexico and abroad and published internationally. She studies Visual Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and is a member of Same Faces Collective.
Residency 2025
Sonte’nish Myers is a filmmaker with roots in the U.S. and Jamaica whose work draws on folklore and cultural memory. Working across drama, sci-fi, and fantasy, she centers familiar worlds to explore preservation and identity through film and photography.
Her award-winning short Cross My Heart (Vimeo Staff Pick, streaming on SHOWTIME ANYTIME) led to fellowships with Sundance, Tribeca, and Film Independent. Her period sci-fi feature Stampede (The Black List, Sundance Labs) is currently in development, alongside new projects in near-future thriller and fantasy.
A graduate of NYU’s Graduate Film program, where she now teaches, she has also directed music videos for artists including Tank and the Bangas and Samara Joy.
Residency 2025
Nahima Quetzali Dávalos-Vázquez is a digital anthropologist and learning designer based in Oaxaca City. Her practice explores the intersections of technology, the body, inequality, and creativity through academic and applied projects. She focuses on guiding processes that approach technology through affective and sensory experiences, collaborating with collectives and institutions at the edges of the digital and reframing disconnection as a space for reinterpretation and meaning-making.
Residency 2025
Mayra Cernas is a transdisciplinary creator whose practice brings together textile craft, research, and situated pedagogy. Her work explores visual culture, regional dress, gender, and collective memory from the margins. Trained in sewing in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, she integrates textile labor into her ongoing project Cómo hacer un huipil, which combines historical research, material experimentation, and inherited practices.
Residency 2025
Ica Sadagat attends to the body as text, text as material, and material as collective labor and practice. A trained organizer, perpetual editor, and former crisis counselor, Ica started Sadagat School of Motion & Text in 2022 to offer more sites for embodied learning, close listening, and guerrilla poetics. She has taught and performed in plenty spaces; some of her work can be found. Beyond all of this, Ica spars and surfs.
Residency 2025
Catherine Anabella Lie is an Indonesian interdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, and educator based in Mexico City. Her practice centers on commoning and uses scores, video, and text to explore alternative histories beyond dominant narratives. She collaborates with more-than-human presences in everyday life—stuffed animals, a broken phone tracing global copper mining, and sourdough starter—as tools to examine kinship, identity, design, and ecology.
Residency 2025
Espartaco Martínez is an Actor and creator trained at La Casa del Teatro, with an international career across Japan, Europe, the Americas, and Korea. He explores dance, clown, and butoh as languages of resistance in works such as La Bestia, Inhumano, and The Heart Sutra. Author of Bitácora de Oriente and Dejarse ir, he has collaborated with Romeo Castellucci and Daisuke Yoshimoto.
Residency 2025
Alexis Convento (she/they), queer Filipino-American artist based in Berlin. Working as Ulam, they create performative and edible installations connecting personal storytelling, ancestral memory, and care. Their projects include Kamayan feasts inspired by the Manila–Acapulco route. They are also Head of Production and Planning at LAS Art Foundation..
Residency 2025
Matt Thomas is an architect, artist, and urban designer exploring the systems that shape everyday life. Director of The Paseo Project and founder of Studio Taos, he focuses on the intersections of food, water, and the built environment. He has taught at Columbia, Parsons, the American University of Beirut, and Chongqing University.
Residency 2025
Tania Mata is a dancer from Oaxaca with 17 years of experience in Graham technique, contemporary dance, acrobatics, and aerial movement. She has performed at Teatro Alcalá, Teatro Degollado, and Foro Larva, and since 2022 has taught contemporary dance and acroyoga at Necia.
Residency 2025
Mario Cruz is a sociologist and visual anthropologist from San Jacinto Chilateca, Oaxaca. His photography, awarded Best Portfolio at FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2024, is part of the Contemporary Image Catalog at the Centro de la Imagen. He founded the Club de Experimentación Fotográfica and has exhibited in Mexico and Chile.
Residency 2025
María Conchita Díaz, a Zapotec filmmaker from Oaxaca and graduate of the CCC. Her thesis La Soledad won the BAFTA Student Award and Yugo Student Choice Award, making her the first Mexican and Latin American recipient. Co-founder of IXMATI Films, she is developing Ascio o Día sin Sombra.
Residency 2025
Oscar Javier Martínez, also known as “Oxama,” is a music journalist, musician, and producer from Oaxaca. Co-founder of Cinema Domingo Orchestra with Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), he has collaborated with Ana Díaz, Lila Downs, and Susana Harp. He leads Mori Trío and hosts El Sexto Continente, a long-running jazz program.
Residency 2025